NEW INTERVIEW UP AT TOR.COM!

The most esteemed Irene Gallo has just recently posted an interview we did over at TOR.COM's new website. New questions, answers and bloviating as always from yours truly... as well as some thoughts on the upcoming Freaks of the Heartland movie adaptation. They've posted art to see and even a video to watch- (love that rocketship logo of theirs) check it out:

http://www.tor.com/index.php/creators/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=7241

FREAKS OF THE HEARTLAND... The Movie!

It's true! It seems that Overture Films has taken on Steve's and my midwestern gothic horror, and decided to turn it into a picture film. David Gordon Green will diregct it, which pleases us both quite a bit. Be prepared for something a little different than your typical comics-to-movies effort here. I'll be sure to keep everyone posted as news unfolds and I am made aware of it. For now, however you may behold the actual scoop from the Hollywood Reporter by using the link below:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/
news/e3i9e2284979c0b8c78d778cf353fdf9c6f


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SPECTRA PULSE #2

The newest issue of SPECTRA PULSE is out and low and behold, it's got a cover by yours truly. A bit of a departure for me in many ways, but tremendous fun all around. Go get thee a copy! It's a great magazine with excellent interviews!

You can visit their website by following this here url:
http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/spectra/

and their facebook page by doing likewise:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=5674967431

THE 52 WEEKS PROJECT CONTINUES!

This week marks the second installment of the well received 52 Weeks Project, posted up now at the Storefront section of our fair website. This little experiment has gotten a tremendous response- thanks to everyone for their support. To view the newest installment, please follow the url below:


http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14587682


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PANDEMONIUM and the 52 WEEKS PROJECT

Just a head supt o let you know that Daryl Gregory's excellent breakout novel, Pandemonium (Random House/Del Rey) is due out on the shelves this week. While I can claim having done the cover for this marvelous tome, it is the work inside that's garnering those rave reviews. Make sure to check it out- and glean more info and news on it by visiting the link to Daryl's site below:

http://www.darylgregory.com/


Also on the decks this week is the launch of my latest experiment to wrest what was once play back from the clutches of work, THE 52 WEEKS PROJECT! Each Monday will see a new drawing of the same size and proportions, but wildly varying subject matter posted come hell or high water on the STOREFRONT section of this fine website. So stay tuned to this station for further additions to what is promising to be a very fun line of work. Er,,, I mean play. The first volley in this game is already up-

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5559977§ion_id=5582258



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WEBSITE UPDATES: NEW STOREFRONT! and CONAN

Hey Everyone-

Well finally after long broken promises, pressurings and cajolings, the official, perhaps even Etsyish, storefront to end all gregthings storefronts! It's true- if you haven't already noticed the ironic bag of bananas-hanging-from-a-banana-tree shtick, then please return to the home-page and click upon our fairly hired, minimum wage storefront monkey as he unfurls his banner. You'll be whisked away like a basket of flowers to the marketplace at Etsy.com where you can find any number of art-things from previous and current projects up for sale. I've manage to load but a few so far, but please keep checking back as I'll continue to fill out the infinite shelves of our digital superstore.

And if this wasn't enough (and many could safely argue it is far more than necessary), please also peruse and enjoy a new raft of other, non-monkey themed capitalism and art goodness as we've updated a bunch of new files and stuff to our website at large. Enjoy as you must, and feel free to contact me with any special requests or concerns, be they special or otherwise.

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MoCCA Art Festival 2008!

Once again, let it be known to all who can make it that I will be in attendance for this year's MoCCA Art Festival at the glorious Puck Building on Lafayette Street in lower Manhattan this June 7th and 8th. I'll be once more in my usual booth alongside the illustrious Allen Spiegel (Booth #A55-A56), and we have a visual horn o' plenty to push upon your innocent eyes. To celebrate my Graphic Novel, The Woodland Chronicles at Scholastic/Graphix!, I'll have a great deal of new art to peruse, a giant sized new Woodlands postcard, and a limited edition 18x20 giclee print. In attendance as well will be the first ever peek of the soon to be released hardcover edition of Conan: Born on the Battlefield, collecting the entire run of the story, and featuring both a seventeen page sketchbook section and essay by the awesome Ed Brubaker. There will also be an abundance of work put towards my upcoming children's book, The Pirates Guide to First Grade, alongside the usual deviltry ensued from Freaks of the Heartland, Goosebumps, The Matrix, Sudden Gravity and many others.

Allen will have the newly collected hardcover of Jon J Muth's M, as well as his latest children's picture book, Zen Ties, Barron Storey's Sketchbooks, Kent Williams new monograph, Amalgam, and the last few copies of Phil Hale's double collection of paintings entitled Mockingbirds.

This is one of my all time favorite shows and I heartily recommend your coming out to say hello. You won't want to miss the excess of riches it truly is. More info can be had directly from their website by clicking upon this here link below:

http://www.moccany.com/artfest-main.html

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FREE COMICBOOK DAY!

Truth be told I will in fact be making an appearance at That's Entertainment this May 3rd for Free Comicbook Day. I'll be there with Peter Laird and his Mirage Studios folks, along with many other excellent creators, so please stop by and say hello. You can glean more, times, directions and store info, by going to their website:

http://thatseco.ipower.com/

Hope to see you there!

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I just wanted to post a little happy holiday goodness and well wishings here for everyone this holiday season. Looking forward to the New Year and all it will bring. Warmest regards to all!

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The Black Book of Secrets!

It's black, there's secrets... it's out on the shelves now! I can only claim a limited contribution to this wonderful little book of shadows by way fo the cover art, but I do so proudly. It's a great read for a post- Harry Potter world longing for some truly unique, spooky goodness. Make sure to check it out. We're just getting rolling on the cover for F.E.Higgins second tome, set in the same wonderous world, and it's called "The Bone Magician". More news on that later, for now, get theee to a local book monger and enjoy!

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